it's got to negotiate with budget telecom back in germany, t-mobile.of >> u.s. regulators seem to be the hurdle. i think back to the at&t deal in 2011, everyone thought it will pass but u.s. regulators stopped it. what is he thinking? at&t buying t-mobile is different from sprint brine t-mobile. at&t is one of the big dominant ones up there with verizon. they are one and two. three and four are a distant three and four. he said, you put three and four together, we are still going to struggle to compete with one and two. also if you have the comcast situation. in a lot of ways, all of this is coming together. cable companies and dish companies and phone companies are all becoming one. he is going to argue that the landscape is different and it was just a few years ago. >> so they are trying to piggyback on the comcast-time warner cable deal, hoping regulators will see it as the whole industry shaking up. >> there was the airline deal when american airlines merge with u.s. air. you ask how it is relevant. the regulators let a deal go through that a number of folks